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This was a tough choice between the two in the lead, for me.
Both look pretty damn good.
Both look pretty damn good.
- Every second of Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet.
- Leatherface's initial appearance in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
I just watched Ronin. Incredible how hard it is to make even an adequate shoot out scene, not to mention one that hits the sweep spot as perfectly as Mann does in Heat.1) The post-robbery shootout in Heat. Quite possibly my favorite stretch of cinema.
I’m gonna mash two of yours together and say every scene with Dennis Hopper in TCM2. There’s a chainsaw duel!
Haha, I was expecting something after seeing you call it the GOAT war film. It’s a good movie, but it drags for me in some spots and feels a little too long.
Although, it gets points for featuring Iron City beer and Rolling Rock before Rolling Rock was national.
I just watched Ronin.
I gave it another chance because of the Mamet script, but it was still pretty bad.That one bored the shit out of me for whatever reason.
GOAT war film.
Mr. Blonde and Stealers Wheel in Reservoir Dogs.
Ed Harris reviving his bitch ex-wife in The Abyss
That one bored the shit out of me for whatever reason.
There was a little finagling because of people jumping in, but when this phase ends, we'll normalize everything and get it set up [...] but I like that it's not simply assigned cold like that and we have room in case things change.
First of all, we're talking "scenes" here, not "moments". It has to be an entire segment of a story. Some of the ideas that came to my head we're split-second affairs, pure in the moment happenstances.
Jesus in God Told Me To (one of the biggest WTF moments in my cinematic-life. It works better on VHS though since the brightness of DVD makes it waaay to clear what you're watching, while the murkiness of VHS is fittingly obscure)
The Death of Frank in Once Upon A Time in the West.
I haven't even included Full Metal Jacket, Sword of Doom, Get Carter, Chinatown... dear lord.
I have some problems with Deer Hunter.
It’s a good movie, but it drags for me in some spots and feels a little too long.
Man, the more you post, the more I realize how closely aligned our sensibilities seem to be. One tweak though: If I were going to pull out a scene from The Abyss - which would be on a top five list for me of the most underrated movies out there - it'd be the scene that I just call the drop. "Knew this was one way ticket." Fuck, man. That'd be a serious contender for top five status on a GOAT scene list.
Funny you mention that because I've noticed us regularly voting for the same films.
As for the Abyss, yeah...that was some powerful stuff. Especially on the heels of the scene I mentioned (which has brought me to tears probably every viewing). The Abyss is one I bought on laser disc for the extra scenes.
I agree it doesn't seem to get the love maybe it should.
Could be it's length.
Could be the ticket turning out to be more of a round trip.
Those scenes change the core of the film, and so clearly to its detriment.
How did it look? Was Laser Disc noticeably different from VHS?
You've got Ed Harris being his always awesome self but even more awesome than his normal awesome; Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio throwing down as IMO the ultimate Cameron female with the perfect combination of beauty, brains, and balls; and Michael motherfucking Biehn turning in one of my all-time favorite performances. Robbed of both an Oscar nomination and win, Biehn kills so hard as Coffey. When he's losing his shit and cutting himself up under the table? And no joke, I say it in my head so often at opportune moments and have even sometimes said it aloud because I find it so hilariously unnerving when he's officially off the deep end and he has that line, "We may have to take steps"
Even though Once Upon a Time in the West came out probably before all of us were born, your moment is a spoiler moment, so I tagged it. But, on the subject of Leone, my #1 Leone moment is that moment when De Niro as old Noodles looks through the slit in the wall in Once Upon a Time in America and the power of the nostalgia transports him back in time and turns him into young Noodles. @Rimbaud82 and @moreorless87, we spent a week talking about Tarkovsky and time, well, you want the most beautifully poetic and profound meditation on time in the cinema, skip Tarkovsky and go to Once Upon a Time in America. That moment is one of the most powerful in movies. I'm sure we've all had an experience like that, where the charge of a memory is so powerful that our minds really do take us back in time. To capture it so simply and so beautifully like that, that's the stuff that genius is made of.
Also, in memory of Burt Reynolds...
1) Chestburster scene from Alien
3) the car chase through the mall in blues brothers
My buddy who uses the handle "Yojimbo" has his five:
2) Gomer Pyle's 7.62 millimeter full metal jacket scene from Full Metal Jacket
4) Leon getting the Voigt-Kampff test from Blade Runner
Showdown in Little Tokyo:
Sup lads
5. Gladiator (2000), Battle in Germania
4. The Deer Hunter (1978), Russian Roulette Scene.
1. Once Upon A Time in the West (1968), Opening Scene
Out For Justice
Big Trouble In Little China
But, even though I was never a proper fan of the man, I did always like him
1) The post-robbery shootout in Heat. Quite possibly my favorite stretch of cinema.
3) The Mako scene in The Sand Pebbles (europe knows the one I mean). No spoilers, but damn.
4) The ending of Inception. Not the crazy set-pieces, not the big dream confrontations with Mal. I'm all about those last couple of minutes from the plane to the airport and back home.
Sideways
4) When Marty is in the future. I'm still waiting for this reality with pizza.
5) Jurassic Park when the T-Rex is first escaping the fence.
I very strongly considered a Jerry Lewis week
I’m gonna mash two of yours together and say every scene with Dennis Hopper in TCM2. There’s a chainsaw duel!
but it drags for me in some spots and feels a little too long.
Another thing that could work: You or europe could make a post at the start of a new cycle laying out the schedule. That way, everyone knows the lay of the land at the outset and if there's any shuffling to be done once the cycle is underway then everyone would still know what's going on and could adjust things accordingly.
If you and europe want to change things up at some point for some reason, that's your call, but so long as I can follow along and know what's going on, I'd be a happy camper.
Needless to say, nothing that he said during that guest lecture and nothing in the clip that he showed could've prepared me for that one-of-a-kind-what-in-the-absolute-fuck-am-I-watching ending
But leave it to europe to drop God Told Me To.
nd Cohen talked about how Nolan either ripped him off for the funeral scene with all the cops or else great minds really do think alike. Then he showed the early parade sequence in God Told Me To.
There was no way I was going to be the only person to watch and wonder WTF that was that day. He was coming along for that insane ride that day
Even though Once Upon a Time in the West came out probably before all of us were born, your moment is a spoiler moment, so I tagged it. But, on the subject of Leone, my #1 Leone moment is that moment when De Niro as old Noodles looks through the slit in the wall in Once Upon a Time in America and the power of the nostalgia transports him back in time and turns him into young Noodles.
Don't worry about that one. I'm sure Sly knows how much you love him and how you think that his remake is light years in front of the original.
I always wanted to yell Didi Mau to people.
Hope your back is recovering smoothly, btw
Ha! Yeah, Hopper brought some good times to TCM2. Funny you should mention that flick since it's gonna be a nominee.
And sorry, Rolling Rock sucks. But not as bad as Yuengling!!
Listen muntjac, you're a cool guy and all, but that's the kind of talk that can get your head bounced off a coffee table, and if that happens, I'll be sad about it, but I'll also be Cubo's Tom Sizemore.
If you thought Deer Hunter dragged in spots, then you should definitively check out Chimino's other masterpiece, Heaven's Gate! He fixes all, ALLL of the pacing issues that bothered people in Deer Hunter. That movie skips along at a zip-zip-zap tempo! Speedy all the way to the end!
In all seriousness, once you wrap your head around the fact that it's a slow movie and it's meant to feel like that, so that (a) the war sequence can feel as jarring as it's supposed to feel and (b) the pain of the aftermath can linger as long as it's supposed to, then the pacing should end up enhancing the movie.
Interestingly, one of the only people to really hit on how crucial the pacing is was Tarantino in an old Channel 4 thing that he did in the UK talking about De Niro's work during the time period when, as he puts it in the special, De Niro "was God."
When I was at my last year of high-school (or whatever you yanks call it). We we're tasked with writing some essay about what we wanted to do/experience in the future or something like that. Instead, I spend the entire essay bitching about the fact that we were just a few years removed from 2015 and none of the Back To the Guture gadgets had been invented yet. Like the Pizza, or the Self-trying shoe. Then I got bored midway through and just started throwing shade at my classmates. I was a model student.
I'm pretty sure gun-nuts use the sounds of that scene as meditation-noise like how housemoms use wale-songs or shit like that.
Rolling Rock does suck now. It was better when it was brewed in glass tanks, but once it was bought by Anheuser, they switched to aluminum tanks, and it has definitely suffered. Yuengling is based out of the other side of the state, so more Philly than Pittsburgh. Although, I do enjoy an occasional Yuengling. Where Rolling Rock's old brewery was in Latrobe is actually where Iron City Beer is now brewed. Although, I don't really drink any of these that much because Pittsburgh's craft brewery scene is pretty great.
We Have A Winner!White Lighting wins the poll with 7 votes! Okay people, let's watch Reynolds hornswoggle another southern Sheriff! Got to love that sales pitch though, "Booze-Running, Motor-Gunning, Law-Breaking, Hip-Shaking, Man-Teasing (wait, what!?), Woman-Pleasing (so... he's bisexual?), Fast-Acting (wouldn't action be more appropriate?) Excitement!"
Personally, I'm just glad Cannonball Run didn't win. That movie is abysmal.
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Personally, I'm just glad Cannonball Run didn't win. That movie is abysmal.